Indeed, this is the point. Mind you, the chamber was pretty bare at times and I suspect many members were in the bar, so plenty of room for a lounge about.slinger wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 1:44 pm I think many of you actually missed the point of my post showing Jacob Rees Mogg lounging across the bench. Why I said "They don't do themselves any favours, do they?" at the bottom was a completely apolitical point, for once.
What I was saying with that comment was that with his party in some state of disarray, and with opponents inside and outside the house ready to jump on any misstep, you would think an intelligent man (for he is, despite my personal dislike of his public persona) would know better than to offer the opposition free ammunition.
I cannot remember anything in politics quite like this, and I've taken a keen interest in it since the early '70s.
All that said, we seem to be in a rather bizarre position where two sovereign countries (the UK & the Republic of Ireland) wish to have no hard border, and to have free movement of people, goods and services on the island of Ireland, but are prevented from doing so by a supranational body (the EU) as EU rules and regulations take precedence over national ones.
